In bleeding heart, do-gooder San Francisco, most fretting over the scheduled federal budget sequester has revolved around what the across-the-board cuts would mean for the poor.

Advocates for homeless programs, for example, have warned that if Congress and President Obama don't compromise by March 1, the city will lose more than $1 million in homeless assistance grants and $800,000 worth of housing vouchers for low-income AIDS patients.

But in emphasizing to reporters after Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting that the city's fairly rosy budget projections for next year would be dramatically worse if sequester happens, Mayor Ed Leehighlighted something else.

No more Blue Angels. And perhaps, gasp, no more Fleet Week.

The Navy circulated an internal memo late last month, saying that sequester would mean slashing all funds for the Blue Angels, the nation's oldest aerobatic flying team, in the second half of this year.

That would mean grounding the fleet for 30 scheduled shows, including San Francisco's - that October spectacle that delights and wows some and causes others to gripe about militaristic braggadocio or just the ear-drum bursting noise.

Christine Falvey, spokeswoman for the mayor, said Fleet Week's Parade of Ships could also be in jeopardy. Behind the scenes, organizers are wondering whether Fleet Week could survive without those centerpieces.

Falvey said Fleet Week attracts 1 million spectators and its loss could have a major economic impact on San Francisco.

"The mayor is hoping the president and Congress can reach an agreement to avoid these devastating cuts," she said.

We've heard this before: Mayor Ed Lee just did it. Mayor Gavin Newsomdid it. And we told you last week that Mayor Willie Brownreminded us that he did it too.

Yes, they all tried to make sweeping changes to the perennially beleaguered Housing Authority, including making new appointments to the agency's commission. Last week, we told you it was like deja vu all over again - again.

Time to add yet another again.

Former Supervisor Michael Yakiwrote to say that Mayor Frank Jordanshould be on the list, too. Yaki recalled that in the early 1990s, President Bill Clinton had initiated the Hope VI program to give federal grants to local housing authorities to rebuild the most distressed public housing projects.

The city had won a grant to remake Hayes Valley, and Bernal Dwellings in Bernal Heights and Plaza East in the Western Addition were next in line. Yaki, who at the time was district director for Rep. Nancy Pelosi, recalled that concerns over permanently displacing residents led the Housing Authority Commission to refuse to apply for more Hope VI money.

"When we heard that, we were a little distressed," Yaki said, noting Pelosi immediately got on the phone to Jordan. "She called the mayor up and had a frank chat with him. The next day, he fired the commission."

He immediately appointed a new commission, which applied for the grants just under the wire, got the money and rebuilt the projects.

So why, if so many previous mayors have taken such dramatic steps, has nothing worked to revamp the agency?

"That's a mystery to me," Yaki said.

P.S. In what could be a sign that things will really change this time around, there's no national search for a permanent replacement for Housing Authority chief Henry Alvarez, who is on medical leave and not seeking to renew his contract, which expires in June.

Usually, the city makes a big deal of hiring a consulting firm to conduct a national search for a hot-shot leader from some other major city. (That's the exact process that led to Alvarez being hired from San Antonio.)

But City Administrator Naomi Kellysaid not this time. After all, the mayor is considering absorbing the Housing Authority into the Mayor's Office of Housing or contracting with nonprofits to run it, in which case its leadership structure won't remain the same.

"We want to figure out the future of the agency before we look for a permanent replacement for Henry," Kelly said. "We might not need a replacement."

Quote of the week

"I feel like I'm on Team Justice, and I feel like, oh no, I'm team captain!"

Tani Cantil-Sakauye, California chief justice, to Balboa High students